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enKCRW and Rolling Stone focus on rising LGBT youth homelessnesshttp://www.glaad.org/blog/kcrw-and-rolling-stone-focus-rising-lgbt-youth-homelessness
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span id="styles-0-0" class="styles file-styles 750px"> <img src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/images/2014-09/510x287-_MG_8027.jpg?itok=a5pDipHV" alt="" title="" /></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>KCRW's radio talk show, <em>To The Point</em>, <a href="http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/to-the-point/forsaken-children-in-an-age-of-acceptance#seg-the-rising-number-of-homeless-gay-teens">recently featured a conversation</a> about the epidemic of homelessness facing LGBT youth in the United States, despite apparent growing acceptance for LGBT people in general. The episode was based off an article in this month's issue of <em>Rolling Stone Magazine</em> on the same topic. <em>To The Point</em>'s host Warren Onley was joined by Alex Morris, author of the <em>Rolling Stone</em> article; Carl Siciliano, executive director of the <a href="http://www.aliforneycenter.org/">Ali Forney Center</a>; Wendy Montgomery, an LGBT-affirming Mormon parent; and Dr. Caitlin Ryan, director of San Francisco State University's <a href="http://familyproject.sfsu.edu/">Family Acceptance Project</a>.</p>
<p>The show began by recounting the story of Daniel Pierce, a 20-year-old gay man who came out to his religious family, <a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/video-should-make-every-christian-cringe-what-do-we-do-about-it">only to be verbally and physically attacked by them</a>. Pierce recorded a video of the incident and posted it online, where it quickly when viral. He received over $100,000 in donations to help support him after he was kicked out by his family, but for many LGBT youth who face similarly devastating reactions from their families, the result is homelessness.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/the-forsaken-a-rising-number-of-homeless-gay-teens-are-being-cast-out-by-religious-families-20140903" target="_blank">In Morris's <em>Rolling Stone</em> article</a>, Jackie, now a 24-year-old, was cut off emotionally and financially from her family in her sophomore year of college after telling them she is gay. Hannah was 20 when she found a police officer standing at her bedroom door in her family's home, saying she was no longer welcome there. And Luke, the son of a conservative Pentecostal preacher who grew up in a remote area of Tennessee, travelled three days on a train away from everything he had ever known to live in a youth shelter on the West Coast.</p>
<p>Carl Siciliano, a former Benedictine monk-in-training, emphasized in the article and on <em>To The Point</em> that the lack of resources for LGBT homeless youth, and homeless youth in general, is a huge issue. "I don't think that we as a movement have put enough attention into how homophobia can create destitution," Siciliano told Onley. "There are at least 200,000 homeless LGBT youth in this country…and there are only 350 beds dedicated to homeless LGBT youth, and there only 4,000 beds in the whole country dedicated to homeless youth. There's a shameful, shameful lack of fighting for resources to protect our kids. And it's not just the LGBT community."</p>
<p>Later on <em>To The Point</em>, Montgomery spoke about accepting her gay son after he came out, saying, "It was pretty difficult, growing up in a really devout, conservative, multi-generational Mormon home, I had some pretty negative stereotypes and ideas in my head of what it meant to be gay… So, I reassured him as much as I knew how, but inside I was just falling apart because I had no frame of reference for understanding this." When Montgomery didn't find helpful information on LGBT people from the Mormon religious leaders she had turned to her whole life, she looked elsewhere and came across Dr. Caitlin Ryan's work with the Family Acceptance Project. "I can tell you that it felt like sunshine in the middle of the darkest period of my life," she told Onley.</p>
<p>Ryan joined the conversation to talk about the work of the Family Acceptance Project, saying, "Our aim in doing this project was to develop an entirely new family-based approach that helps support LGBT young people in the context of their families' values and beliefs, including their religious beliefs." She added, "Our work is designed to intervene at three phases, one to go upstream when children are little to give families accurate information about sexual orientation and gender identity… We also intervene when conflict emerges and, in fact, with situations like Jackie and Daniel's where the family has been fractured, to help reconnect families after the young people end up out of the home."</p>
<p>You can read the <em>Rolling Stone</em> article <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/the-forsaken-a-rising-number-of-homeless-gay-teens-are-being-cast-out-by-religious-families-20140903">here</a> and listen to the full story from KCRW's <em>To The Point</em> <a href="http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/to-the-point/forsaken-children-in-an-age-of-acceptance#seg-the-rising-number-of-homeless-gay-teens">here</a>.</p>
<p>GLAAD is working with the National Campaign for Youth Shelter. In June, the campaign held a <a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/photos-many-gather-rally-homeless-youth-washington-square-park">rally in New York City's Washington Square Park</a>. The campaign is being led by the Ali Forney Center and the National Coalition for the Homeless. Additionally, films like <a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/documentary-film-explore-crisis-lgbt-youth-homelessness"><em>Road to Home</em></a> and <a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/watch-trailer-pier-kids-life-and-help-fund-film"><em>Pier Kids: The Life</em></a> have sought to tell the stories of LGBT homeless youth. To join the <a href="http://nationalhomeless.org/campaigns/national-campaign-youth-shelter/">National Campaign for Youth Shelter, visit their web site.</a></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">September 11, 2014</span></div></div></div>
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<li class="field-item even"><a href="/issues/people-color">People of Color</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/issues/religion-and-faith">Religion and Faith</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item even"><a href="/issues/transgender">Transgender</a>, </li>
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Wed, 10 Sep 2014 21:23:16 +0000daniheffernan72192 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/kcrw-and-rolling-stone-focus-rising-lgbt-youth-homelessness#commentsDanny Elfman Does a Movie Goodhttp://www.glaad.org/2009/02/19/danny-elfman-does-a-movie-good
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Composer <strong>Danny Elfman</strong>, the music man behind <strong><em>Milk</em></strong>, has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score. Elfman recently appeared on Los Angeles public radio station <a href="http://www.kcrw.com/etc/the-oscars">KCRW</a> to talk about his experiences in composing for a film steeped in gay history.</p>
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<a href="http://glaadblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dannyelfman.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-6535" title="dannyelfman" src="http://glaadblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dannyelfman-273x300.jpg" alt="" width="273" height="300" /></a>Elfman joined Morning Becomes Eclectic host Jason Bentley as part of Bentley's "Music Behind the Movies" series. Here are a few choice snippets:</p>
<p>-- On Van Sant: "Getting into any project with Gus means I'm going to go in a lot of different directions and mess around with a lot of different ideas. With another director, that can be very frustrating. Trying to hone in on 'What do you want for this movie?' With Gus it's more of a process of fun experimentation."</p>
<p>-- On his creative process: "I don't do research going into a movie. I think the least I know the better. I like to forget that I've even read the script, even though I do read the script because the more prepared I am in the beginning, the more it sends me down a specific direction which may not be the right direction...So I started with a real blank slate other than -- don't mess this up. Except I didn't use the word mess, but we're live on the air."</p>
<p>To listen to the interview in its entirety, please click <a href="http://www.kcrw.com/etc/the-oscars">here</a>.<br /></p><div align="left">
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">February 19, 2009</span></div></div></div>
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<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/danny-elfman">Danny Elfman</a>, </li>
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Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:15:42 +0000glaad31747 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/2009/02/19/danny-elfman-does-a-movie-good#comments